Finland is, I think I have noticed, one of few EU countries that have an official traffic sign for bus stops. It is in cities combined with plates with line numbers and destinations, but in rural areas with just a few buses per day it’s just the sign.
The blue-white sign, meaning long-distance traffic, is actually obsolete now, only the yellow-black one is official, and the kind of buses the stop serves is indicated by a textual additional sign if needed. #TrafficSign#ÖPNV#PublicTransport
It’s about 3 weeks since I sent feedback in to PTV about this signage at Ormond, McKinnon and Patterson being wrong. The quick easy fix is to simply remove them. No action (or even a reply) yet. #Melbourne#PublicTransport#MetroTrains
Apropos absolutely nothing ... did #PublicTransport exist in the #RomanEmpire? That is, were there vehicles of any kind that existed solely for the carriage of people plus their personal luggage (but not freight), without regard for social rank, operating regularly along set routes? Excluding #ferries over rivers and the like. #AncientRome#Classics#ClassicalCivilisation#History#Histodons
"A new study has busted the decades-old myth that transit systems get less efficient when they receive more government subsidies — and proved that subsidies in fact do the opposite."
"This research revisits the perennial policy concern that operating subsidies hamper transit efficiency. We argue that the relationship between subsidies and efficiency can be better understood at the regional level and propose improved metrics related to transit efficiency. To begin, we focus on the impact of subsidies on transitsheds rather than transit operators to recast subsidy as a per resident metric, and we average vehicle load in the transitshed as our efficiency metric. Comparing these measures, we discover a surprising trend – transit efficiency is strongly and positively correlated with per resident operating subsidy."
Senate Bill 52 in #Indiana has passed the Senate and is moving to the House. The bill will temporarily ban any dedicated lanes, specifically bus only lanes, from being constructed, and it will ban the no right turn on red signs in downtown #Indianapolis. This bill will increase congestion, increase #pedestrian fatalities, and undermine local governments' power. All for the misguided idea of improving traffic flow.
My #grandparents worked on the #buses in the days when the #drivers cab wasn't accessible from the the rest of the #bus. They'd be shocked to know how dangerous working in #publictransport has become.
Two weeks ago, spent £1400 on my small car getting new cam and oil pump belts. Preventative. This is more than my bike cost new.
Yesterday bike cost me £4 for a new rear tube. This would buy me a cheap air freshener for the car.
The only reason I keep a car is we don't have a working public transport system in UK. We can waste billions every year on vanity projects and corruption, but decent transport? No chance
A new Boston Consulting report on #infrastructure costs has found that while UK build costs for infrastructure are around the same as the US, they are well above comparable projects in #Europe (but interestingly less expensive than #Australia).
Is there something about the #business model (or type of #capitalism) in these three countries that makes such project more expensive than in Europe?
It’s worth noting that Sweden is currently transitioning into the anglosphere model which will increase costs.
Also worth noting that Greece, Italy, and Turkey, countries that the north often think of as inefficient, have the cheapest construction costs even when controlled for labor costs (source: same blog above)
Nitter going away is going to be bad for public service notices. My local public transport use Twitter as a primary mode of communication, and info given in replies can be more clear than general service status info given through their apps.
I have taken 5 minutes to leave a comment with Scotrail and Stagecoach via their website, to let them know how unusable twitter has become (and to throw a line in about mastodon). I would suggest if there are any bus or train users that feel similarly to take a moment to politely leave a note on their inquiry forms.
#RuterTooter :ruter: 3 trams are stuck at a standstill, back to back, at Sofienberg because someone has parked their van badly and the trams can’t pass. 💀
Another Southern Cross Station update, this time from the bank of screens near Bourke Street.
For some reason the clock on one of the four metropolitan screens is one minute slower than the other three.
One is dim and very hard to read, and another is just broken entirely. Another for country trains flickers on and off intermittently.
As with the other screens at Collins St from a few days ago, the order and display of trains is all over the place. For example, why does it only show only one next departure for the Sunbury, Alamein and Craigieburn Lines when most others have the next two, three or even four displayed?
Today my daughter and I did a little skitour in grissons near Landquart. We travelled by train to Grüsch, walked to the cable car and took it up to 1770m. There we mounted ours skins and climbed the Wannenspitz as well as partly the Fadeuzer before we skied down to Furna. As hoped for we had some really nice firn. To my surprise we were alone most of the time.
In Furna we waited for the Postauto, relaxing in the afternoon sun and took the train back home in Schiers.
Budapest to Lyon: Why I chose to take a night train with my 6 year-old son instead of a flight
It was my six-year-old son who figured out a way to make that happen. Engrossed in a picture book about trains, he came across one that depicted a family sleeping peacefully in a couchette.
Public transit is great because each morning while there's three lanes of traffic jam crawling towards the city next to them in the bus lane we just go nyoom
Got reminded of the old Ikarus 200 buses of Budapest, the first of which entered service in 1971 and the last of which were retired in 2022. They were loud, bumpy and broke down frequently. I miss them so much. #Budapest#PublicTransit#PublicTransport
Throwback to when tram no. 2020 was wearing a mask back in, well, 2020. These trams had smiles painted on them at the time so it was super fitting. #Budapest#PublicTransit#PublicTransport